Iowa fight song plays 500 times a night from abandoned building
The word is fight, fight, fight for Iowa
Residents of Niagara Falls say they first started hearing the University of Iowa’s Fight Song coming from speakers in the window of the vacant building on 3rd Street about six months ago.
The song has played from 3pm-11pm on repeat, every night since then. That’s over 500 hundred times per night.
Every person reading this has most likely heard the Iowa Fight song at least once (or a million times) whether on game day, at one of your favorite Iowa City restaurants or in your dorm hallway. It’s a very prominent and beloved song here in Iowa city.
Hearing this tune while walking around downtown Iowa City would catch no one off guard, but imagine you’re a citizen of a town over 700 miles away from Iowa City and suddenly one night you hear the tune eerily playing out of a vacant building, then your hear it the next night, and the night after that.
This is exactly what is happening in Niagara Falls, New York.
It’s almost as if the citizens of Niagara falls are living inside of a cyclone’s worst nightmare.
The surrounding business’s walls, rafters, and ears are ringing.
Across the street at Wine on Third, owner Shawn Weber told Buffalo News: “It is ridiculously annoying.
“They play it for 50 seconds over and over again. I could sing it to you almost by heart.”
Weber tried to stop the music but was told it wasn’t violating a noise ordinance.
They say they cannot wait for this odd situation to be over because it has actually been deterring their customers from coming to their stores. Police have responded to the scene several times but say they have not been able to find a source, and even if they did no laws are being broken.
There are multiple theories on who is responsible for this and why, including anything from support of the Iowa caucus, someone performing a psychological experiment or just a die hard Hawks fan.
Whoever it may be, you truly took the saying “Hawkeye fans are everywhere” to a whole new level.
And we here in Iowa City commend you.